See Trump Run (Run, Trump, Run!)

Is anyone else enjoying the Donald Trump show as much as I am? I’m not talking about NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice (which in any case is less entertaining since Gary Busey got whacked). I’m talking about the show where His Donald-ness drops by every conceivable televised news outlet and says things that you are absolutely not supposed to say, leaving his liberal interlocutors in fits of sputtering rage and apoplexia. Some of the unspeakable things the Donald has dared to speak include:

1) China is ripping us off. No question about that, is there? The Middle Kingdom has long manipulated its currency (the yuan) to the detriment of U.S. manufacturers, a de facto trade war which U.S. officials have often ignored because we need China to finance our debt (to fund ObamaCare and other socialist travesties because, you know, we don’t actually have the money). Recently a bipartisan congressional delegation led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met with Chinese leaders to broach this exact issue, discreetly, no doubt, and ever-so politely. Trump calls it a disgrace and promises to retaliate in kind.

2) The Libya war is a disaster. Trump wants to know, and he’s not the only one: What are we doing in Libya? Who are the rebels we are supporting? Are they any better than Gaddafi? The confused and confusing “kinetic military action” in Libya is exactly what one would expect from a commander-in-chief with a conflicted view of America’s role in the world, a reflexive antagonism towards our military, and a foolish fetish for international consensus. Trump’s take? “I’m only interested in Libya if we take the oil.” Be still my heart.

3) Obama has not produced his original, long-form birth certificate. Talk about an inconvenient truth! Though this is an absolute fact, liberal journalists find it astonishing that anyone would find it suspicious. Indeed the media is more interested in portraying anyone interested in this issue as crazy (not to mention racist), than in actually investigating the issue itself.

This last is especially troublesome for the media: On the one hand, they are eager to book Trump, a colorful character who brings ratings and attention, but in doing so give him a platform for the “outrageous” views they find offensive.

Recently, some of these liberal journalists, like ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, have tried to square this circle by having Trump on, then aggressively trying to rebut his points so as to make his seem like the loon they take him to be. Trouble is — it’s not working. Trump has a knack of pushing back with maddening confidence and alacrity. And to the horror of the establishment on the left and the right, Trump makes a great deal of sense to a lot of Americans, and not just on the birth certificate issue.

In fact, Donald Trump has provided a more concise and devastating critique of the Obama administration than anyone else in the thin GOP presidential bench. He lambasts the disastrous economic policies which have driven up gas prices, unemployment, and inflation. From someone whose candidacy is supposed to be a joke, it is a remarkably effective approach.

What’s more, Trump laments the loss of U.S. prestige in the world, and connects viscerally when he vows that, if he were elected president, America would be respected again. When he says the Trump doctrine would be “We take care of ourselves first,” he quenches the deep and abiding thirst of countless Americans who have longed to hear such naked, unashamed sentiments from our politicians.

Across the country, the sense has settled in that America is in drastic decline. Trump boldly proclaims that, not only can this downward trajectory be reversed, it should be reversed, and in doing so speaks to the fervent fears and desperate hopes of a vast and terrified electorate.

Matt Patterson is the Warren Brookes Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and senior editor at the Capital Research Center.

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Andy

All the above questions are good ones….
But the big question is;
“Who is Obama?”
(From aprevious PJM article) No presidential candidate of the past 30 years has been permitted the level of secrecy and non-disclosure that President Obama received.
Apart from the long-form birth certificate… to date the following are all undisclosed:

1. Marriage license between Obama’s father (Barak Sr.) and mother (Stanley Ann Dunham) — not found, not released
2. Obama’s baptism records — sealed
3. Obama’s adoption records — sealed
4. Records of Obama’s and his mother’s repatriation as US citizens on return from Indonesia — not found, not released
5. Name change (Barry Sotero to Barack Hussein Obama) records — not found, not released
6. Noelani Elementary School (Hawaii) — not released
7. Punahou School financial aid or school records — not released
8. Occidental College financial aid records — not released.
9. Columbia College records — not released
10.Columbia senior thesis — not released
11.Harvard Law School records — not released
12.Obama’s law client list — sealed
13.Obama’s files from career as an Illinois State Senator — sealed
14.Obama’s record with Illinois State Bar Association — sealed

What are Obama and his backers hiding?

And……….another important question;
“What is Obama’s relation with the islamo-fascist Saudis?”

Truly, the mysteries of Obama doesn’t make him ‘interesting’ but moreso untrustworthy, deceitful, and a vital threat to the post of POTUS … which brings me to his, obvious, preferred faith. Clearly defined in common sense: “If this POTUS favors muslim rights, recognizes muslim holidays (over Christian holidays), takes on a ‘muslim name’, attended Wright’s hate-filled muslim-affiliated church for over 20 years, mingles/mingled with church member, Farrakhan — then we’re looking at a closet muslim in the WH. Surely, hiding behind lies and vehement denials doesn’t change any of the facts but, however, does indicate we’re dealing with a radical, indoctrinated mishap of society.

Even in the beginning, people saw through this guy but, for the foolish who believed, harsh realities are coming to light.

According to World net Daily, hardly a left leaning publication, neither Michelle’s or Obama’s law licenses were revoked. Read this: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=105998. Conservatives and all critical of this President need to be careful to verify the facts surrounding allegations of impropriety or illegality against those they have political differences with. The Left hurls ad hominem attacks and false allegations against the Right all the time and lose credibility each time they’re openly called out on it. Because of the almost insurmountable Left wing media bias over the last few decades Conservatives cannot afford to be cavalier and careless about using the same unethical tactics. Check your facts. Obama, his wife and his close associates have so much factually correct political and personal baggage that can, for the most part, be easily verified that there is no need to be inventive or inaccurate.

Voluntarilly giving up a law license is virtually unheard of. After giving three years of your life and investing hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire a law degree, followed by the agony of studying for and passing the bar exam, only a tiny fraction of people are willing to give what many consider a ticket to lifetime security.

Yet both obama’s did that, and not AFTER the millions Soros gave them, but when they hadn’t yet found sugar daddy.

Michelle’s convoluted excuse may be the truth, or it might not. Believing anything these two say is foolhardy at best. Whether this one is true or not, it was a very strange thing to do.

One of the thousands of strange actions in the lives of these two anti-american marxists.

the donald has really got the liberal press jumping through hoops to legitimize their undocumented ‘wound’. i call him a wound, because he reminds me of just that. i just watched as cnn had one of their liberal quacks come on and explain how the certificate of live birth is now the only proper form of ‘birth certificate’ to be used in the island state. they appear to have passed it into law, and everyone will evidently need to pay a fee and get one of these bandages over their wound as well. it will now be officially the way to go.

so instead of repairing the damage, they have applied a pretty dressing and called it fixed. however, and doctors correct me if i am wrong, if you don’t properly repair a wound before applying the pretty dressing, it will fester and make the patient very sick indeed. in fact, it could easily lead to the patient’s demise. perfect.

so, i guess obama’s half sister, who has a c.o.l.b. as well, and everyone knows was born abroad, is now also a natural born citizen? yeah, they really are smart those democrats. and how stupid they think Americans.

I love seeing Trump finally telling Emperor Obama that he has no clothes on. Finally somebody is saying it (because, you know, the main stream media wouldn’t dare say it). It’s almost like seeing Rush Limbaugh run for president. But, unfortunately, there is a lot more to being president than just mouthing off at the current administration. Ronald Reagan was a successful two-term governor of California before he ran for president the first time and lost to Gerald Ford (barely). But then he came back to win in 1980. You still need somebody who knows something about how to run a government and how to politically be a successful chief executive before being a president. Trump will not be able to run the government like his business. It’s way, way, different. But I admire his nerve and his courage for saying what needs to be said, that the emperor indeed has no clothes. It’s about time.

Let me try that question Old Soldier. The short form answer may be: Beltway culture of collusion and corruption.
Every congress critter there has something on someone else or something on themselves that they would rather hide or hold back as a chip in the game. The game is mutual arm twisting.
They have also learned/been taught to suck up to the press. Popularity and approval, through the collusion, have outweighed effectiveness. Effectiveness became ‘bringing home the pork.’
Politeness is in the culture. Look what it did for McCain’s chances. Trump is waving the flag of political non-correctness, and I say, let the old dog agitate the “establishment”. Mutual sleep-keeping can get us all killed.

Well it’s sure dangerous for them to keep ignoring things. One day they will wake up and DC will be surrounded by angry peasants with pitchforks, torches, and rope. And the military will just shrug and look the other way.

“…His Donald-ness drops by every conceivable televised news outlet and says things that you are absolutely not supposed to say, leaving his liberal interlocutors in fits of sputtering rage and apoplexia.”

And THAT is the heart of the Donalds popularity with the folks in flyover country including me. I am absolutely no fan of the Donald and would not want him as the Republican presidential candidate, but he is showing the way to the rest of the feckless cowards who play by the Lib media rules allowing the Libfilth to dictate what is “acceptable” speech and what is not. The Libfilth MSM must be taken head-on and absoultely crushed under the weight of their own lies and biases, but it seems only the Donald (and Palin, though not so forcefully) is willing to do so at the moment. Come on you checkpants country club cowards and waaaaay too clever stragists (Rove in particular) who operate under the Libfilth rules, grow some cohones and take the fight to the media scum who believe they know best in all things. Continuing to play in the Libfilth court and by their rules guarantees you lose every time. The majority of the country will be behind you if you will only rip up the Libfilth playbook and SAY WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID.

Donald Trump has contributed to Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Frank Lautenberg, Ted Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy, Harry Reid, Arlen Specter, Anthony Weiner, Charles Rangel and Rahm Emanuel.
He was for abortion before he was against it.
He has supported single payer (i.e., socialist) health insurance.
And he endorsed the outrageous Kelo eminent domain decision.
This man is no conservative. And picking a nominee isn’t about swooning over some demagogue whose balloon juice happens to stroke one’s ideological erogenous zones. It’s a serious business involving finding a candidate who has the character and views which make him or her fit to be President of the United States. Trump is, at best, a diversion.

I have to agree. If Trump were elected, and continued the socialist healthcare agenda, it would be the same as keeping Obama in office. Obamacare is something we can’t survive. We can do a lot better than Trump.

Mr. Trump is leading,,,,and that is exactly what we the people have been missing. He believes in a hard days work, and that is what scares the daylights out of the left. I like his no nonsense approach.

Matt Patternson: the only pundit in the conservative world who hasn’t acted toward Donald Trump like the MBM acts toward every conservative. Congratulations.

You have articulated precisely why Donald Trump is extremely popular. People are FED UP with John Boehner and EVERY DAMN ONE OF THE CRIMINALS WHO PRECEDED HIM. We are fed up with churchmouse Republics sitting on their hands while hard-core marxists destroy this country. The only reason the country hasn’t risen up against the Boehners of the world is that obama is EVEN WORSE.

I’ll tell ya, I’m seeing that the conservative media is just the MBM junior…their treatment of Trump is revealing that they aren’t any better than Katy Couric, they just don’t have the same size megaphone.

I wondered about that with Sarah Palin, but it wasn’t quite as clear.

Now it’s as clear as a ringing bell.

NRO hasn’t told it’s audience 1/1000th of the astonishing background of the marxist in the White House. There isn’t a single notable pundit in the conservative universe with the exception of Sean Hannity who has informed his audience that the president’s entire history has been hidden from view. But they are trying to destroy Donald Trump, every day, in every way. Somebody please, explain THAT to me.

I’m not easily impressed by blog commenters but I have to tell you, thanks for your take on the impending disaster we face as a country and your willingness to spend the time to put it into coherent adult language that even the dimmest among us can understand.

Your recent willingness to call out the Marxist for what he has always been is like the Donald, a breath of fresh air.

For the record I repeat. Palin, Romney or Trump. The rest are bought and paid for hack politicians and or Ruling Class Wannabees. Nothing more needs to be said about 2012.

The reason Trump donated to Rahm is because he has an $850 million investment in Trump International Hotel and Tower on Wabash Avenue in Chicago. People in business understand the unfortunate need to donate to such people…it costs much more not to.

It is interesting watching Trump doing a neo-mercantile populist act while a beneficiary of trans-national free trade globalism. England was mercantile and shafted the Dutch and Italians and Portuguese until its free trade Pax Britanica era, which lasted a hundred years. The Americans were mercantile and shafted the British and Germans and Japanese and are currently doing its Pax Americana free trade era. Notice that during the spread of free markets and globalization under the UN flag of convenience Donald, the good “ugly American” was no where to be seen humping the boonies to bring freedom to the down trodden in South Vietnam and Cambodia. Show us your draft card Donald! You chicken hawk you! Ah, the oligarchy of privilege and draft exemptions, don’t you just love ‘em? Hey, Donald, did show up for your conscription physical in drag or were you a CO? Inquiring minds want to know.

The appeal of Trump his that he is speaking the language of Americans, not politics. After two and a half years of being trashed abroad and being berated at home by our President, it is refreshing to see someone who thinks America and Americans are GREAT! It is wonderful to hear someone say OUTLOUD, America is NOT going to be the worlds Red Headed Step Child anymore. He is appealing to people who are AMERICANS FIRST!!!

Across the country, the sense has settled in that America is in drastic decline. Trump boldly proclaims that, not only can this downward trajectory be reversed, it should be reversed, and in doing so speaks to the fervent fears and desperate hopes of a vast and terrified electorate.

The thing to remember about Trump is he has spent the last 33 years in the public spotlight because he knows that the media will just lap up the pronouncements of anyone who both makes bold statements and shows no shame or makes no apology when those statements or actions turn out to be wrong.

Trump may be doing a great job right now of making statements that conservatives have been longing to hear from their politicians. But three years ago he was making statements liberals wanted to hear from their politicians, and three years from now, he could be taking the same position. And as long as he shows no shame and admits no errors, he will remain someone eminently quotable.

["....countless Americans who have longed to hear unashamed sentiments from our politicians."]

Never a more true statement! Tell me all the really cool sounding superficial things I ‘want to hear’ is the demand of the fickle in search of a feel good moment without to much deep thinking involved. Thats the way of the New Society of LBJ. Have those in government tell me whats important because I haven’t the capacity to observe, understand and reason for myself.

Trump is a self serving political buffoon along with several others being touted and in the limelight.

The government and all its problems are much larger and complex in ‘process’ than any president or candidate. Rocks can identify, luminate and sensationalize problems but, rocks haven’t the capacity to solve problems within the reality of the process. Herein lies the problem with the Tea Party and GOP folks today. Long on superficial rhetoric and sorely short on any viable strategies of implementation of any real resolves.

Hows that health care act coming along for the promised congressional repeal?

Hows that cutting the size of government an authority coming along?

Hows that stop government spending and increased debt coming along?

Oh, you say the constitutional process is getting in the way…huh?

I know, I know, if only the GOP could gain the seats in congress or the ‘right’ president to stampede through government reforms as the democrats did until recently….thats the solution! Dream on in your ‘simple’ world!

I have supported Trump from the very beginning. He says things just the way I would, simply and to the point, and his points reflect what Americans want to hear.
He is the only person I know that can beat Øbuttmas butt. . .

Donald can be trusted . Obama cant be trusted. Donald knows business. Obama knows community organizing ( taking other peoples money). Donald is proud of being an American. Obama is ashamed and apologetic of America. Donald is smart. Obama is coached.

Donald would surround himself and administration with smart, experienced people. Obama surrounds himself with devious, socialists like himself.

I hope Donald runs as an Independent. The Republican “Old Guards” have proved they can’t be trusted.

Why is everyone saying that Trump is the only one speaking the truth?
We have Club for Growth congressmen all over the place speaking the truth about Obama’s terrible economic choices. We have Palin and so many others who have been speaking the truth about all of Obama’s bad policy choices. Trump is a merely a self promoting person who happens to have a megaphone.
He is no conservative and he is a protectionist. And he certainly is not the only one telling like it is.